A SCHOOLGIRL from Warrington has overcome hundreds of entries from children across the country to win a national design competition.

Lottie Allen saw her design used to create banners used as part of the BRAKE Road Safety Week campaign, which ran last week.

The competition was run by expert name badges, promotional items and personalised product manufacturer Recognition Express in order to raise awareness of Road Safety Week.

This, as the UK’s largest annual road safety event, involves thousands of schools, organisations and communities to highlight everyone’s right to make safe and healthy journeys every day.

The competition invited primary school children aged four to 11 to create a design for a road safety banner based on this year’s theme of ‘road safety heroes’.

Lottie, aged 10, was one of just 12 winners chosen for the honour.

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She received a personalised trophy, along with a large-scale printed banner featuring her design to display outside her school, Callands Community Primary, during Road Safety Week.

Alan Stones, director of Recognition Express in Warrington, said: “I was really impressed by Lottie’s work.

“I had hoped that by the time this year’s competition came round, things would be more back to normal after the lockdown and I would be able to go to the school to make the presentation myself, but sadly this was not the case.

“Keeping everyone safe has to be a priority, so instead I sent a personal letter of congratulations for Lottie, which the school kindly presented to her on my behalf along with the trophy and banner.

“Road Safety Week aims to inspire thousands of schools, organisations and communities to take action and promote road safety awareness during the week and beyond, and it is a privilege to be involved.

“Our competition is a fantastic opportunity to engage primary school children and help establish good road safety sense for years to come.”